Paper ID #45305Empowering Electrical Engineers: Project-Based Learning for EnvironmentalSustainabilityDr. Uma Balaji, Fairfield University Dr. Uma Balaji received her Ph. D from University of Victoria, B.C., Canada in Electrical Engineering. She was a Canadian Commonwealth Scholar. She is the Chair of Electrical and Biomedical Engineering Department at the School of Engineering and Computing of the Fairfield University. Her research focused in novel modelling techniques to design components for wireless and satellite application. She was awarded the IEEE Region 1 Award as ’Outstaning Teaching in an IEEE Area of Interest (Pre
aresponse to the velocity of input (in this case the velocity of the ball). Finally, the integral termcan improve steady state response (in this case the final ball position). Commercial laboratory balland beam systems exist but can be prohibitively expensive for large class sizes. However, in recentyears, microcontrollers have become more accessible and easier to use, providing a potentialplatform to create inexpensive ball and beam systems. Examples of ball and beam systems usinginexpensive microcontrollers are available [2]. In this work, one such example was adapted tocreate a classroom experiment to study PID controllers [2]. Control systems courses can be mathand theory heavy. By engaging in this hands-on exploration, students gain insights
depart- ment at Iowa State University, USA and his MBA with emDr. Deify Law Dr. Deify Law is an assistant professor of mechanical engineering department at California State Uni- versity, Fresno. Dr. Law teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in the broad areas of thermo-fluids, transport phenomena, and fluid dynamics. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 A Framework for Multidisciplinary Student Teams Participating in a Large-Scale Design-Build Competition Kim, S., Lin, J., Sullivan, M., Law, D., Omar, T., Salem, Y.AbstractCalifornia State Polytechnic University (Cal Poly Pomona, CPP) was selected as one of the
: h.kumarakuru@northeastern.edu Hari has 18+ years of educational leadership experience amplifying academic and scientific endeavours in the higher education setting that has brought him to four separate continents. He capitalizes on his in-depth competencies in curriculum implementation, instructional delivery, scientific research, technical writing, and student mentoring to provide students with the tools for academic and professional success. Since 2007, he has had the privilege of mentoring numerous undergraduate and master’s students, a pursuit he is most passionate about. He has applied his established teaching skills to a wide range of undergraduate courses in general physics, engineering physics, electronics for
was an NSF ATE Mentor Connect Mentor Fellow in 2022. She is an Emeritus Professor of Engineering and Physics at Bucks County Community College where she was the Principal Investigator of two NSF Advanced Technological Education (ATE) grants, focusing on workforce readiness, and creating pathways from non-credit into credit programs. She also taught at The College of New Jersey (TCNJ) in the School of Engineering for 15 years. With funding from these ATE grants she created two technician education programs, and enhanced the engineering major at her community college. Dr. Delahanty established technical, college level, programs of study for modernized classroom and laboratory including six online course platforms
retention of low-income engineering transfer students.Kameryn DenaroDr. David A. Copp, University of California, Irvine David A. Copp received the B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Arizona and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Teaching at the University of California, Irvine in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Prior to joining UCI, he was a Senior Member of the Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories and an adjunct faculty member in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of New Mexico. His broad research interests include engineering
tools andtechnologies in first-year engineering courses has proven to be quite beneficial in response to thedemanding requirements of higher-level classes, the engineering profession, and the broadertechnological landscape. This paper aims to highlight the importance of integrating digital toolsand technologies into the curriculum for first-year engineering students. Digital tools such asCAD, simulation and modeling software, virtual laboratories, interactive learning modules,SharePoint, data analysis and visualization tools, and programming environments offer diverseopportunities to enhance the learning experience, engage students, and prepare them for thechallenges of engineering practice, particularly in the higher-level classes. These tools
regional technicians. The firstapproach consisted of a survey sent to 88 advisory board members (n=36 for responses) of 82local representatives to gather input on their organizations' needs of graduates from the St.Petersburg College’s Engineering Technician Department. A meeting in the college'scollaborative laboratories was held to determine the skill needs for the engineering technicianpositions. St. Peterburg College' Workforce Division coordinated the meeting.Stakeholders from local manufacturing companies, workforce support organizations, and St.Petersburg College gathered at SPC’s collaborative labs to discuss an electromechanical workforcetraining program. The manufacturing representatives were presented with industry statistics forhiring
Technology Jacqueline Tawney is a Ph.D. candidate in GALCIT (Graduate Aerospace Laboratories of the California Institute of Technology). Jacque is a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow, a leader within the GALCIT Graduate Student Council, and the founder of Women in GALCIT. In the Kornfield group within Caltech’s Chemical Engineering department, Jacque researches associative polymers, their rheological properties, and their potential for agricultural and industrial applications. She is passionate about creating positive change within her communities and being a compassionate scientist and leader. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Compassion and Engineering Ethics
Paper ID #44277Connecting Machine Design Concepts via an Undergraduate Forensic EngineeringActivityDr. Amanda Sterling, Auburn University Dr. Amanda Sterling is a mechanical engineer at Auburn University who specializes in engineering design, additive manufacturing, and biomechanics through research, teaching, and innovation. She has published articles on the microstructure and fatigue of additive metals, providing insights into advanced engineering materials. Her research leverages additive manufacturing to design corrective quadruped orthotics, blending art and mechanical design. ©American
engineeringfundamentals.IntroductionMore than ever, the world needs innovative products, services and organizations to help societymove forward. Those who will design these advances often seek opportunities in college to bothdevelop and test new ways to solve problems in ever-growing ecosystems and new engineeringapplications. Though engineering programs often excel at teaching technical capabilities,communication, leadership, teamwork and project-based learning activities gain less attention. Inaddition, engineering programs typically lack a structured method to apply entrepreneurialthinking to their studies, where questions of financial viability, social usefulness and potentialdemand for their engineering solutions are integrated into their coursework. Therefore, co
university with missions for Teaching, Research, andService. In a Research focused institution or organization, a dedicated, full-time team can beestablished to perform on a contract according to schedule, with specified deliverables. It doesnot matter if the team operates within a matrix or vertical organization [1] or a Functional/ProjectOriented organization [2], the team members are dedicated in a substantive way to meet thecontract Objectives and Scope.In an academic setting, tenurable faculty have multiple charges. These are illustrated as a typicalexample below in Table 1 for a research active university [e.g. 3]. The duties of tenurable facultyworkload can generally be categorized as Teaching, Research, and Service.Table 1. Workload Spread
lacks proper internal oversight. A lack ofemphasis on selecting PIs who are well-equipped to lead supportive and diverse laboratories cou-pled with a lack of diversity in the researcher and PI populations frequently leads to an unhealthywork environment that Black PhD students have the burden of navigating throughout their entiredoctoral program. We hope that sharing our experiences will serve as a reference point in the refor-mation of the graduate engineering education system. By challenging biases and fostering a moreinclusive academic space, we aim to see an improvement in the graduation rates of Black doctoralcandidates.Introduction Academic spaces are experiencing an influx of diverse students feeling empowered to pur-sue higher
Paper ID #42261How Do We Take Full Advantage of the Academic Benefits of Student CompetitionsCarly Woelfel, United States Military AcademyMajor Brett Rocha P.E., United States Military Academy MAJ Brett Rocha is a third year instructor at the US Military Academy in the Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering. She received her B.S. in Civil Engineering from USMA in 2012, her M.S. in Engineering Management from Missouri University of Science and Technology in 2016, and her M.S. in Civil Engineering from University of Central Florida in 2021. She teaches mechanics of materials, design of steel structures, and design of
offer results of and discussion on twosurveys from the Fall 2023 course on student perceptions about networking. All this is intended toassist faculty and students as preparation for fulfillment and success in whatever they undertake, bothduring and after college.Background on Engineering Leadership CourseEnrollment in our engineering leadership course typically runs over 80 students per semester. Thecourse includes two credit hours of lecture and one for laboratory. We aspire to help students grow inskills for emotional maturation, collaboration, and team and organizational leadership. Our frameworkis the remarkable similarity of engineering and leadership skills [4]. When we appreciate the pertinentcharacteristics of people as individuals and
student feedback and retention data. This paper is a work-in-progress that willcontinue until the students graduate.Background and MotivationThe authors teach in the school of engineering at an undergraduate-focused university. The authors’institution is in the midst of redesigning its introductory engineering courses. This redesign startedabout two years ago and was prompted by low retention of first-year engineering students. Thefirst-year engineering program is still evolving, but at this stage of the redesign, there are twocourses that all first-year students enrolled in the school of engineering must take: a course in theENGR 1200 series, which is the subject of this work, and ENGR 1100. Sections of ENGR 1100include students from all
their time and expertise. This ensured that all partieswere satisfied. Also, it is noteworthy that the NSBE team collaborated on aspects of the projectduring years 1 and 2. This was important for our collaborative ethics since the universityresearchers worked directly with data and impact relative to NSBE (non-profit organization).Please see the NSBE Team overview earlier in the paper for more information.Community EngagementBringle and Hatcher (2002, p. 5) define community engagement as “the partnership of college anduniversity knowledge and resources with those of the public and private sectors to enrichscholarship, research, and creative activity; enhance curriculum, teaching, and learning; prepareeducated, engaged citizens; strengthen
. Between her graduate degrees, she worked as a loop transmission systems engineer at AT&T Bell Laboratories. She then spent 13 years in the medical device industry conducting medical device research and managing research and product development at five companies. In her last industry position, Dr. Baura was Vice President, Research and Chief Scientist at CardioDynamics. She is a Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE).Prof. Matt Miller, Loyola University, Chicago Matt Miller is Professor of Counseling Psychology at Loyola University Chicago where he directs the Race, Culture, and Health Equity Lab. His scholarship represents the intersection of multicultural and social
then test their proposed experiment in a wet-chemistry laboratory, record dataon findings, and have an opportunity to iterate on their materials list and try the experimentagain. Outside of the lab, students research a community in New Mexico that could be impactedby AMD and apply empathy perspectives to consider all stakeholders who may be involved(community members, farmers, government employees, etc.). The final proposed solution fortreatment integrates both the lab experiment and the community stakeholder needs assessment.Design Challenge 2: Concrete CanoeThe American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) holds an annual concrete canoe competitionwhere student groups from universities across the U.S. design, build and race a canoe made
is commonality and interestsin both realms. Faculty dedication has been a critical asset in adopting such continuingenhancements.Engineering programs at this university campus emphasize more hands-on experience than atypical undergraduate college, since most of our computer and electrical engineering studentsseek entry-level employment upon graduation. Most theory courses are augmented with separatetwo- to three-hour laboratory courses, taught by the same teaching faculty. This hands-onexperience is stressed more during the two-semester capstone project courses, offered in thesenior year of studies. Throughout the second semester of capstone projects, graduating seniorsexperience several aspects of working on team projects in large
Paper ID #40790Peru in State CollegeDr. Lauren A Griggs Griggs, Pennsylvania State University Lauren received her B.S. in Engineering Science, with a concentration in Nanomedicine from The Univer- sity of Virginia in 2012. As a doctoral student in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Virginia Commonwealth University, Lauren was awarded the RuProf. Julio Urbina, Pennsylvania State University JULIO V. URBINA, Ph.D. is a Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at The Pennsylvania State University. His educational research interests include: effective teaching tech- niques for
followed an approach meant to allow students to start using a physical vehicle immediately(First Controller Area Network, CAN, and drive-by-wire, DBW, then sensors and machinelearning, then controls, and finally vehicle integration). What we found was that students hadmostly forgotten the importance of CAN and DBW when they needed it most, for the finalproject. Due to university teaching constraints, the second iteration of the course occurred inSummer 2021.Proceedings of the 2024 ASEE North Central Section Conference Copyright © 2024, American Society forEngineering Education 3This course was reorganized to first start with sensing and machine
Paper ID #45316LEVERAGING GENERATIVE AI TO ENHANCE ENGINEERING EDUCATIONAT BOTH LOW-LEVEL AND HIGH-LEVEL STUDYDr. Zhou Zhang, SUNY Farmingdale State College I am an Assistant Professor at SUNY Farmingdale State College. My teaching and research interests include robotics and virtual reality in engineering education. I have a Ph.D. and a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, and my master’s degree is in Electrical Engineering. I have over seven years of industrial experience as an electrical and mechanical engineer. I also have extensive teaching and research experience with respect to various interdisciplinary
teaching approach, weleverage the insights of the HPL framework to explore how undergraduate engineering studentsinteract with data skills in relation to the HPL elements when reflecting on their own data skillslearning experiences. Our interview protocol, guided by the HPL framework, delves into studentperspectives on self-reflection, knowledge acquisition, and assessment related to data skills.4. METHODS4.1 Participant Recruitment and Selection.In this study conducted at a southeastern United States institution, 177 students completed arecruitment survey. All interested mechanical engineering (ME) students were automaticallyselected, as only a small number of participants were ME students. Meanwhile, interestedaerospace engineering (AE) students
concentrated on either academic or industrial side of UIC. In this section, we brieflyelucidate the motivations and the interaction channels of UIC.Motivations of UICThe motivations for universities to involve in UIC are usually different from those for industry.From the academia side, universities are mostly motivated to collaborate with industry tosecure funds for research (Lee,2000), access resources such as equipment, laboratories andemerging techniques (Welsh et al.,2008; Santoro, 2000), advance and complement researchagendas (Perkmann, Markus, & Kathryn,2009), expose both student and faculty with practicalsituations and problems (Ankrah et al.,2013), improve research and teaching via practicalapplication (Arza,2010), as well as enhance
behavior in function modeling, collaborative work, graph complexity, and prediction using artificial neural networks.Prof. Joshua D. Summers, University of Texas at Dallas Joshua D. Summers is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas at Dallas. Dr. Summers earned his Ph.D. from ASU (design automation) and his MS (submarine design) and BS (fluidized bed design) from University of Missouri. He has worked at the Naval Research Laboratory (VR Lab and NCARAI). He was formerly a Professor at Clemson University (2002-2020). Dr. Summers’ research has been funded by government, large industry, and small-medium sized enterprises. His areas of interest include collaborative design, knowledge management, and
Paper ID #43914Preparing the Future Aircraft Design Workforce: Filling Knowledge GapsUsing Engineering Design ToolsMelissa Lepe, University of California, Irvine Melissa Lepe is a second-year Ph.D. student at the University of California-Irvine. Her research interests include aircraft sustainability, aeroacoustics, and engineering education. Through her work at the UCI Aircraft Systems Laboratory and the Buswell Research Lab, she has worked on merging her interests in aviation and education to promote inclusivity, equity, and diversity in the aerospace field.Prof. Natascha Trellinger Buswell, University of California, Irvine
of a new teaching career for a second author. Bychance, both landed right in the middle of an ABET visit and “W” (UWT writing coursedesignation) preparations and thus had the opportunity to contribute firsthand by developing andteaching two new required discipline-specific engineering ethics courses.Fortunately, our new colleagues had prepared well during their first year on board which greatlyfacilitated the ABET and “W” course designation preparations. Six new faculty had been hiredduring the previous year to begin the initial preparations to launch the two new programs. Five inME and one in CE [1]. The remainder would be hired in the subsequent year as the CE programwas staggered to start one year after the ME. After the inaugural
materials, and the scholarship of teaching and learning. Tsutsui is the recipient of the 2023 Engineering Education Excellence Award from the National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE).Mr. Vladimir Zeltsman, Purdue University Vladimir Zeltsman is a graduate student and research assistant at Purdue University. He is currently pursuing his Master’s of Science in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering. He received his Bachelor of Science in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from Purdue University in 2022. His work specializes in Systems Engineering.Tyler Scott Adams, Purdue University Tyler Adams is a Graduate Research Assistant in the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Purdue University, IN
laboratory projects in the middle years [27]–[29].Engineering teams offer a mode for interdisciplinarity and task delegation so students can finishlarge and complicated projects within the span of a course. What is not often taught, however,are the various skills necessary in the social processes that make teaming effective:communication, delegation, and conflict resolution, to name a few [30]–[32]. The socialcircumstances in which these skills become relevant can reveal hidden epistemologies that guidethe teaming process, especially when gender differences and dynamics are considered [21].Within engineering, these epistemologies are woven into the culture of engineering learningenvironments and often the engineering field itself [18]. Therefore, we